The Xbox 360 Ultimate Game Sale offers crazy-low Games on Demand prices

Many console gamers out there are abuzz about the Playstation 4 right now, and an official announcement of the next Xbox probably won’t happen until April. How can Microsoft maintain the Xbox hype? Why, by announcing a big sale of course!

The Ultimate Game Sale starts today and runs through March 4th. 15 different Games on Demand titles have their prices slashed to $3-5 for the duration of the sale (discount varies by region). There will be daily sales every day too. In fact, three Halo games are on sale for ten bucks apiece today – awesome prices if you’re looking to get into the series.

Read on for more Ultimate Game Sale and Xbox 360 Deal of the Week details!

Ultimate Game Sale Daily Offers for Tuesday, February 26

Might I recommend all three ten dollar games? Halo Wars in particular is a fine real-time strategy spin on the series from the creators of the Age of Empires series. We’ll be discussing it again in my final ‘How Microsoft can save Xbox Games for Windows Phone’ article.

Deal of the Week February 26-March 4

These offers are open to Xbox Live Gold members only.

Gear of War 3 Season Pass - 1200 Points

Gear of War 3 RAAM’s Shadow - 600 Points

Gear of War 3 Horde Command Pack - 400 Points

Gear of War 3 Fenix Rising - 400 Points

Gear of War 3 Forces of Nature - 400 Points

Gear of War 2 All Fronts Collection - 400 Points

Gear of War 3 Kryll Shield - 160 Points

Gear of War 3 Berserker Pet - 120 Points

Gear of War 3 Jack Avatar Prop - 120 Points

Gear of War 3 Armored Kantus Mask - 80 Points

Gear of War 3 Boomshield - 160 Points

That reminds me, I really need to beat Gears of War 3 before Judgment comes out on March 19! Hey, at least I completed Wave 50 on Horde Mode for once.

Deal of the Week March 5-11

Nights: Into Dreams (XBLA)

NiGHTS: into dreams - 400 Points

Sonic the Fighters - 160 Points

Fighting Vipers - 160 Points

Virtua Fighter 2 - 160 Points

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - 400 Points

Karateka - 400 Points

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure – 800 Points

Shopping time

What do you think of the Ultimate Game Sale selection so far, awesome readers? Leave a comment and let us know what games you’ll be buying.

Some very old and irrelevant games on that list. A nice time to pick some of them up if you've missed them. This is something they have needed to do for a long time now and need to fix for the next gen Xbox. Games on demand shouldn't be at top dollar prices, it should be cheaper, both as an incentive to purchase without giving margin away to retailers and also because the costs of selling like that must be cheaper.

MS relies on its partners for most everything. While I understand the devs and publishers will still get their cut, MS would be competing with their retail partners if they undercut them and that would be bad business. Also, games go on sale when they get old, not when they're recent. These games are old and don't sell at top dollar prices already; this is just an additional sale.

i was excited till i saw what games they were. i usually wait for games to become cheap anyways cause 60 on new is just well should never be for a game that you lose interest in. but non of these games am i curious to play. so i will continue to have patience and wait and see.

I have bad news for you: both Sony and MS wants to eradicate the conecpt of 2nd hand gaming via online activation and all kind of inventions coming from satan. So even a physical disk is in your hand (if there still will be such a distribution method in the future), it wont guarantee you anything. Sad, but every signs suggests this direction.

I heard about this and hope they aren't foolish enough to go through with it. I used to work at Game Stop and the overwhelming majority of our customers got new games because they were able to defray costs by trading in the old ones. I'm still holding a wait and see attitude for the next console generation.

Retailers have shot themselves in the foot by pushing secondhand games. Profit is kept by retailers and none goes to the industry. Industry was bound to fight back its just taken this long for digital distribution to catch up. Secondhand should have stayed the realm of small specialist stores and away from major retail.

Hate to break it to you but there isn't a single retail game store that could stay in business if they only ever sold new games. It's all fine and good to want the industry to be healthy but trying to cut out used games will hurt it far more than help it. Not only that but what suggestion do you have for people who want to get rid of their old games? They could just as easily sell them online, as is their right, and that money wouldn't go to the industry either. I buy both used and new games but I prefer used for certain games because I have the option to return it if I don't like it.

The way I interpreted that rumour was that each disc would have an activation code in it and must be connected to the internet sp that only one copy of that disc could be played at once. Dropping piracy not reselling.